2024 Reading List

Year Theme: My Big Fat Greek Reading List

2024 will be year 2 of The Great Books+ Project. I will start reading straight through the Bible in January & February. I will then proceed with the Great Books, taking breaks during July and December.

The Great Books Reading List

January – February 2024

The Hebrew Bible + The New Testament

This year, I’ll be reading through the Robert Alter translation with commentary of the Hebrew Bible. I will then read David Bentley Hart’s translation of the New Testament.

The Five Books of Moses

Prophets

The Writings

The New Testament

March – June 2024

Spring Semester of The Great Books

These books include both the Great Books and the companion guides that help me understand the main text.

Completed

The Iliad

Completed

A Companion to The Iliad

Completed

Aesop’s Fables

Completed

Greek Epic Fragments

Completed

Pindar: The Odes

Completed

Aeschylus: The Oresteia

Completed

Aeschylus: The Oresteia

Completed

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays

Completed

The Theban Plays

Reading Now

The Three Theban Plays

Next Book

Theban Plays

Sophocles: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

History of the Peloponnesian War

Euripides: Medea, Hecabe, Electra, Heracles

Euripides: Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus

Euripides: The Trojan Women, Andromache

Aristophanes: Clouds, Birds, Lysistrata, Women of the Assembly

July 2024

Summer Break

During July, I’ll be taking a break from The Great Books to mix in some books on the TBR (to be read) list.

August – November 2024

Fall Semester of The Great Books

These books include both the Great Books and the companion guides that help me understand the main text.

Plato: Apology, Laches, Symposium, Philebus, Crito, Phaedo, Theatetus, Meno

A Commentary on Plato’s Meno

Plato: The Republic

Hellenika

Anabasis

Cyropaedia (The Education of Cyrus)

Book	Author	Version	Translation
The Cave and the Light	Arthur Herman
Rhetoric	Aristotle	University of Chicago Press	Robert Bartlett
Physics	Aristotle	Rutgers University Press	Joe Sachs
Politics	Aristotle	University of Chicago Press	Carnes Lord
Nichomachean Ethics	Aristotle	University of Chicago Press	Robert Bartlett & Susan Collins
Poetics	Aristotle	Penguin Classics	Malcolm Heath
Analects	Confucius	Everyman’s Library	Arthur Waley
Elements	Euclid	Green Lion Press
– Encounters with Euclid	Benjamin Wardhaugh
The Art of Happiness	Epicurus	Penguin Classics	George Strodach

December 2024

Winter Break

I’ll close out each year with some fun, light reading before I start back in next year.

I'll be selecting these books soon.